we have a plan where the economy's going to grow better. but it you're going to evaluate what happened, was it a bad recovery, was it a good recovery, i think you have to compare it to deep financial crisis. this was not a plain vanilla recession. you have to compare it to deep financial crises we've had in this country which don't happen very often and other countries around the world, and if you go by that metric, the united states has not done so badly. i mean, i think part of the argument is they say, well, we're not growing that fast now. but the other side of the coin is we didn't fall that far at the beginning. i mean, what people are interested in is are we better off than we were four years ago. and not did we get a lot better in the last year, having sunk mightily. so i think that was sort of what the debate was about. carmen rinehart nor i have been backing either of the candidates, nor advising them, but we felt since our work was being cited again and again and again, not just in op-eds but in press briefings that we heard from